The stomach does a lot of work for the body apart from just digesting the food, hence when it is upset, the whole body goes into a kind of slowdown. Stomach cancer is not rare but a difficult ailment to carry, just like any other cancer. It happens when there is unusual cell growth in the stomach.

These cancer cells attack the stomach lining causing chronic inflammation.

Early signs of cancer in any part of the body are not very easy to determine, but in the case of stomach or gastric cancer, they are next to impossible. It is a very tricky diagnosis where the signs and symptoms might be very vague and can be confused with many other tummy-related issues like indigestion. However, some signs on the face can lead to the correct identification of stomach cancer.

A few early warning signs and symptoms that might just point toward stomach cancer are:

Small skin bumps

Stomach cancer can lead to a rare skin disorder called papuloerythroderma of Ofuji. It causes small, raised bumps on the face skin along with inflammation, swelling, and peeling on your face and other body parts. It also causes severe itching and affects the mucous, lymph nodes, and skin appendages. Other skin changes associated with stomach cancer include:

• Red, violet, or hyperpigmented nodules
• Cellulitis-like or erysipelas-like erythematous plaques

Face peeling

Many times, you might even notice some skin peeling off from the face due to dryness, this can be one of the signs of a building stomach cancer.

Even though they might not be very visible, an impeding early sign of stomach cancer is a swollen lymph node. It can also be filled with mucus, causing inflammation in various places on the face, especially the forehead.

part from these prominent ones on the face, a few other symptoms of stomach cancer are poor appetite, sudden drastic weight loss, pain in the stomach all the time, swelling, heartburn and indigestion, vomiting and nausea, and also low hemoglobin.

If your cancer has spread to other parts of the body, it causes additional symptoms. For example, if it spreads to the liver, leads to jaundice - yellowing of the skin and eyes. If it spreads to the lymph nodes, it can cause lumps that can be felt through the skin.

According to experts, Stomach cancer develops slowly over the years. It begins with pre-cancerous changes in the inner lining of the stomach, before developing fully. These early changes rarely cause symptoms and can often go undetected.

The three broad ways in which this cancer spreads in your body, include through the tissue, then the cancer will spread from where it began by growing further into surrounding areas. Secondly, it could also spread from where it began by getting into your lymph system. Once it gets there, it can travel to other parts of your body through the lymph vessels. And, at last, if cancer spreads through blood, it travels from where it began to other parts of the body through your blood vessels.